Meaning
omelette; mess
- A traditional egg-based Italian dish cooked flat in a skillet.
- A blunder, disaster, or ruined situation (idiomatic).
In a sentence
Per cena preparo una frittata con le verdure.
For dinner I'm making a vegetable frittata.
Ormai la frittata è fatta, non possiamo più rimediare.
The damage is already done, we can no longer fix it.
Ti piace la frittata di cipolle?
Do you like onion frittata?
Word forms (2)
| Word | Word forms |
|---|---|
| frittata | feminine · singular |
| frittate | feminine · plural |
Usage notes
- An Italian 'frittata' is typically flat and not folded like a French omelette.
- The idiom 'fare una frittata' means to mess up, break something, or cause a disaster.